What are the names of cicadas and cicada larvae?

Cicadas, commonly known as cicadas, live mostly in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions and rarely in cold regions? . Cicada monkey is a larva (also called nymph) of cicada facing metamorphosis, also called cicada turtle, which is yellowish brown or reddish and good at climbing. The larva of cicada is unearthed, climbed to the tree and transformed into cicada, which looks like a monkey climbing a tree, hence the name cicada monkey.

Cicada is not completely abnormal. Generally, the life history is long, and one generation is completed in 2 ~ 3 years. The most famous species is American cicada 17, and there are three kinds of cicada 13, all of which are the birthday stars among insects.

In the meantime, it sucks liquid from the roots. Then one day, I broke out of the ground and found a tree to climb with my instinct to survive. After several years of slow growth, it climbed out of the ground as an energy storage body. Its front paws for digging holes can also be used for climbing.

When black cracks appear on the back of cicada nymphs, the molting process begins. Molting is controlled by hormones. Its front foot is hooked, so that when the adult comes out of the empty shell, it can be firmly hung on the tree. It is very important to face the tree vertically.

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Nutritional value:

Young cicadas are rich in protein, fat and carbohydrates, which are rich in nutritional value, comparable to fish, meat, poultry and eggs, and the amino acid content ranks first among all animal and plant foods.

In addition, it is rich in amino acids and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. A variety of beneficial components of cicada can promote growth and development, improve immunity, and have an auxiliary therapeutic effect on the rehabilitation of patients with physical weakness.

Medicinal value:

The medicine of cicada was first seen in Shennong's Herbal Classic. Physicians of past dynasties believed that cicada was better than dumb cicada (female cicada) and had the function of clearing away heat and relieving convulsion. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that cicada is salty, sweet, cold and non-toxic, and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving convulsion and stopping epilepsy, relieving sore throat and improving eyesight. Mainly used for treating wind-heat headache, sore throat, infantile enuresis, rubella itching, measles failure, conjunctival congestion, tetanus, etc.

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